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<DIV>In Old French, Old Spanish and, to a lesser extent, in Old Italian, the
requested structures were widespread in texts. Today their traces are in
toponomastics and in some expressions:</DIV>
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<DIV>Old French</DIV>
<DIV>Bourg-la-Reine (< Bourg de la reine)</DIV>
<DIV>Ho^tel-Dieu (< Ho^tel de Dieu)</DIV>
<DIV>la part-Dieu (< la part de Dieu)</DIV>
<DIV>Pont-l'Eve^que (< pont de l'éve^que)</DIV>
<DIV>la Dieu merci (< merci de Dieu)</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>la Complainte Rutebeuf</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>etc.</DIV>
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<DIV>Old Spanish</DIV>
<DIV>Puenterrey (<Puente el rey)</DIV>
<DIV>Puente la reina</DIV>
<DIV>etc.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Old Italian</DIV>
<DIV>la Dio mercé (<la mercé di Dio)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Moreover, the Arabic construction called <EM>status constructus</EM>
behaves more or less the same way.</DIV>
<DIV>Best,</DIV>
<DIV>R Simone</DIV>
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<DIV>From: "Spencer, Andrew J" <<A
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<DIV>Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 12:02 PM</DIV>
<DIV>Subject: Possession/modification by simple juxtaposition</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>> We are interested in finding languages that express
possession and adjectival modification in the same way, namely, by means of pure
juxtaposition, without any other morphosyntactic marking (agreement,
adpositions, case marking etc.). In other words, we're looking for languages
with the following construction types (head-initial/head-final; the linear order
doesn't matter to us and the language doesn't have to have a consistent head
position):<BR>> <BR>> good
book:
book good // good book<BR>> the name of (the) boy: name [(the) boy] // (the)
boy name<BR>> Gwen's book/mother: book/mother Gwen// Gwen
book/mother<BR>> <BR>> A language which is close to what we're looking for
is Spoken Welsh (head-initial):<BR>> <BR>> good book:<BR>>
llyfr da <BR>> book
good
<BR>>
<BR>> the name of the boy:<BR>> enw y
bachgen<BR>> name the boy<BR>> <BR>> the name of a
boy:<BR>> enw bachgen<BR>> name
boy<BR>>
<BR>> Gwen's book: llyfr Gwen <BR>> Gwen's mother:
mam Gwen <BR>> <BR>> However, in Welsh, adjectives take the
soft mutation when they modify FEM.SG nouns, so this isn't a 'pure' example of
the language type we're looking for.<BR>> <BR>> If you know of a language
with these properties please contact Andrew Spencer: <A
href="mailto:spena@essex.ac.uk">spena@essex.ac.uk</A>.<BR>> We'll put
together a synopsis of the replies. (You don't need to reply to the whole
list.)<BR>> <BR>> Andrew Spencer, University of Essex<BR>> Irina
Nikolaeva, School of Oriental and African Studies<BR>> <BR>> __________
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